Francis Francine
Frank di Giovanni, elevator operator, was the first of the Andy Warhol transvestite superstars. Francine had been intended as the star of Flaming Creatures, 1962, but disappeared partway through filming, leaving Mario Montez the throne. He was given star treatment in the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey film Lonesome Cowboys, 1968, as a the transvestite sheriff. The camera lingers as he puts on drag and makeup. This in a cowboy village partly owned by John Wayne.
Flaming Creatures
as Francis FrancineFilmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie...
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Lonesome Cowboys
as SheriffFive lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona...
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No President
as uncreditedSmith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love...
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Chumlum
as uncreditedRon Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are...
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Normal Love
as Pink FairyThe feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming...
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
as Himself (archive footage)In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer...
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